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How Rupert Made His WSJ Offer

2008-12-01 15:47:00 by Nicholas Carlson in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...Rupert Murdoch wants to buy Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones. The family that owns the paper, the Bancrofts, won't talk to him, but he's developed a relationship with Dow Jones CEO Richard Zannino. Murdoch has decided to make him an offer During most of the winter, Murdoch's people (his "henchmen", they tended to call themselves)...
 
Tags: zannino tells murdoch, murdoch, offer, dow jones, dow jones office, murdoch insists, dow jones management, zannino, rupert murdoch
 
 
 
 
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Rupert Murdoch's Secret Talent: Long-Distance Running

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2008-05-29 17:05:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
Rupert Murdoch: Billionaire, media mogul, skilled orator, and... long-distance runner So say Rupe's genes, according to 23andMe , the genetic information startup founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google (GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin. Murdoch, Kara Swisher, and Walt Mossberg all spit in a tube for science and talked about it today at News Corp.'s...
 
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Keith Olbermann Responds: Rupert Murdoch Is The REAL Nutbag

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2008-05-30 18:24:00 by Hilary Lewis in Silicon Alley Insider
...Rupert Murdoch calling Keith Olbermann "crazy" at the D conference , the MSNBC anchor responded , correcting their facts and explaining the more boring reason he was really shown the door Firstly, the quote is, according to AlleyInsider.Com, 'he was crazy.' I appreciate the difference and apparently Rupert does, too," Olbermann wrote He goes...
 
Tags: murdoch, rupert murdoch, olbermann, keith olbermann, crazy, msnbc, msnbc anchor, los angeles dodgers, apparently rupert
 
 
 
 
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Rupert Murdoch, Blogger?

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2008-05-12 17:51:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...Rupert Murdoch, and asked the News Corp. (NWS) boss whether he'd like to start writing posts for free, too. The exchange, via the NY Observer Would you blog for us?' said a young political reporter. 'Would you ever want to do a blog for us Mr. Murdoch gazed at him silently for a few seconds, then smiled. 'I'd love to,' he said We're not sure...
 
Tags: rupert murdoch, week, week ago, icahn report, news corp, arianna huffington, political reporter, blog, ironclad commitment
 
 
 
 
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Rupert Murdoch In Sun Valley: Tipsy, Missing His Wedding Ring

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2008-07-11 14:21:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...Rupert Murdoch, probably the most important man on your beat, has lost his wedding ring. Last seen in the Sun Valley Lodge lobby Murdoch stumbled out of the Lodge bar on Thursday around midnight, where a ridiculously high-powered assemblage of media and tech moguls got sloshed. Instead of making a bee-line for the exit as most of the guests...
 
Tags: rupert murdoch, murdoch, media, sun valley, attention media reporters, uptight wire service, stuff, wife wendi deng, frantic 15-minute scramble
 
 
 
 
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Rupert Murdoch Gets Some Extra Walking Around Money: Sells 8 TV Stations For $1.1 Billion

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2008-07-14 18:08:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...Rupert Murdoch has a mass of resources at his disposal if he feels like deal-making -- say, bundling up MySpace and some cash for a slug of Yahoo (YHOO), or something along those lines. Meanwhile, SAI's Michael Learmonth has been predicting that more of the networks will be willing to part with their owned and operated stations (O&Os) in the...
 
Tags: stations, rupert murdoch, fox television stations, oak hill partners, earnings call, news corp, michael learmonth, billion, resources
 
 
 
 
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Biographer: Murdoch "Had No Idea" Dow Jones Had An Enterprise Business

2008-10-29 10:59:00 by Nicholas Carlson in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...Rupert Murdoch said Dow Jones's digital assets have been 'crazily undervalued For example, there is Factiva, which Dow Jones acquired 50% of from Reuters in 2006 for $160 million. Outsell Research ranks Factiva's "premier information solutions" ahead of LexisNexis's What Rupert didn't say is that he's been one of those doing the undervaluing...
 
Tags: murdoch, rupert murdoch, chairman rupert murdoch, rupert, cut rupert, dow jones, business, biographer michael wolff, wolff
 
 
 
 
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News Corp. Web Unit Sees Revenue Drop, Admits It Won't Hit FY 08 Goals

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2008-05-07 20:15:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...Rupert Murdoch has finally acknowledged that News Corp.'s Web business won't hit the goals he laid out for it last August. Actually, he made Peter Chernin say it: " Let me begining by saying yes, we will fall short of what were very aggressive projections Chernin said Fox Interactive (MySpace, IGN, Photobucket, et al) will come in around $900...
 
Tags: myspace music, music, fim, internet unit fim, fim division, fim revenue, myspace music strength, revenue, myspace